When Is the Next Full Moon? Full Moon Calendar 2026

The next full moon is on November 24, 2026, at 2:53 PM UTC, in Gemini. Technically a full moon is an instant: the moment the Moon stands exactly opposite the Sun, 180° away, with its whole near side lit. To the eye it looks full for a night or two on either side, but the time listed is that exact moment.

The best night to look is usually the evening closest to that time, when the Moon comes up in the east around sunset.

The table runs a year ahead. To get your local time from UTC, subtract five hours for New York in winter (four in summer) or eight for Los Angeles (seven in summer); in London, add nothing in winter and one hour in summer. A full moon just after midnight UTC still falls on the previous evening anywhere in the Americas.

Each date is calculated from an ephemeris based on NASA JPL data, the same one behind our birth charts, and the sign is where the Moon actually stands at the moment it is full.

Astrologers treat the full moon as a peak, a time when things come to a head and become clear, and the sign it falls in says what kind of things. Under a fire-sign full moon people get loud and impulsive. Water-sign full moons bring feelings to the surface. In earth signs the focus turns to money, bodies and practical matters, and in air signs to conversations and relationships.

Because the full moon always sits opposite the Sun, it tends to light up a tug-of-war between two areas of life, such as work and home, or freedom and commitment. Which two areas that means for you depends on the houses in your birth chart.

Most of the familiar full moon names come from North American almanacs, which drew on Native American and colonial traditions. January has the Wolf Moon, February the Snow Moon and March the Worm Moon, followed by the Pink Moon (April), Flower (May), Strawberry (June), Buck (July), Sturgeon (August), Harvest or Corn (September), Hunter's (October), Beaver (November) and Cold Moon (December).

The names follow the seasons and have nothing to do with the zodiac. A "Harvest Moon" and a "full moon in Pisces" can be the same event, described by two different traditions.